The release mainly focuses on performance improvements, but it also does a better job at testing WMS requests. You will now get an error if your client asks for a tile that is offset compared to the grid, or the resolution is not right. Currently the test is pretty strict, we may have to be more lenient to accommodate some clients.
Significant changes:
- Reduced locking, giving much better performance
- Lazy layer loading, decreased memory consumption
- Support for truncate through HTTP request
- Reintroduces optional support for letting anyone seed / truncate
- Support for GetCapabilities? request
- Improved support for KML (vector data)
0.8.2 was actually tagged in subversion twice already, but not officially released because of priority shifts.
Next, and this is the reason why I am pushing this out, we will be working on better KML support. This may require a new backend (possibly a switch to EHCache).
